King Mazawattee the Jurassic, supreme monarch of Swaziland, has stocked his Cabinet with seriously bright okes. In fact, the manne had their ears pinned back by the intellectual vigour of Mpumelelo Hlophe, the Swazi High Commissioner to South Africa, as he explained that democracy is the government of the person, by the person, for the person.
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Tanzania’s government said on Tuesday that it will need -billion to halve the number of people who do not have access to clean water, which is currently 14-million, or 39% of the country’s population. The government launched its 10-year water plan on Tuesday to coincide with the United Nations’s World Water Day.
The almost 900 Mpumalanga matric pupils who had their 2004 exam results nullified for allegedly cheating will get a second chance, the Mpumalanga department of education said on Wednesday. The department feels that falling behind by a whole year on future plans is punishment enough.
Bafana Bafana captain Aaron Mokoena says his side will be taking no chances when they host Uganda in a crucial World Cup qualifier at the FNB Stadium on Saturday. Bafana head the African group-two standings with nine points after the five teams in the group completed their five first-round fixtures last October.
A comedian who gave 000 to the family of Michael Jackson’s accuser testified that she believed the boy’s mother suffered from ”hostage syndrome”. Louise Palanker told jurors in the singer’s child-molestation trial that she believed the woman had felt like a hostage since the age of 16, when she married a man who allegedly abused her.
A deadly haemorrhagic fever that has claimed the lives of 96 people, mainly children, in Angola’s northern Uige province has been identified as the rare Marburg virus, officials from the ministry of health and the World Health Organisation said late on Tuesday. The illness is from the same family as the deadly Ebola virus.
Arab leaders steered clear of the region’s most contentious issues as they prepared to wrap up a summit on Wednesday, while their resolution to reactivate a Middle East peace plan was swiftly rejected by Israel. Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi described Israel and the Palestinians as ”idiots”, leaving his audience in fits of laughter.
Forty percent of drinking water used in South Africa is unaccounted for, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica said on Wednesday. Municipalities are the key to stopping this huge wastage, she said at the launch of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry’s water-conservation strategy at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.
Hunting in private game reserves that border South Africa’s national parks is of "specific concern" to Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk, he said in a statement on Wednesday. The issue was raised two weeks ago by Bantu Holomisa, leader of the United Democratic Movement.